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[phoenix-politics]

This is the politics sideblog for @phoenixyfriend. Call your elected officials!

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[willowcrowned]

Was reading a fic that touched on Qui-Gon teaching both Anakin and Obi-Wan and was suddenly struck by "Obi-Wan assures Anakin that he'll be fine, because Qui-Gon is better than he used to be, on account of Obi-Wan clicker-training him throughout his padawanship."

IDK what to do with this other than offer it to you because. It doesn't seem like Qui-Gon would be receptive to Pavlovian processes. But also. Obi-Wan is a conniving bastard.

no okay thank you SO much for sending this to me because it plays into my latest favorite interpretation of Obi-Wan and Qui-Gon’s relationship in a really interesting way

Recently I’ve been really enjoying unpacking the potential that Qui-Gon subconsciously parentifies Obi-Wan over the course of his apprenticeship, because I think it applies a really fun extra dimension to the existing dynamic of uptight nerd attempts to control guy whose modus operandi is bulldozing through a situation in the most efficient and least appropriate way possible. Obviously the implication in TPM is that Obi-Wan is Like That because of Qui-Gon—it’s a sort of survival strategy—but making it a direct result of Qui-Gon’s own insecurities just adds that little extra special something that makes the Star Wars Flavor.

The basic idea I’ve been playing with is that Obi-Wan readily encourages Qui-Gon’s parentification of him because to Obi-Wan’s messed up ridiculously insecure and in need of therapy brain, being parentified means he’s needed, he’s useful, he can’t be tossed away. Of course the problem with being fifteen and deciding that you’re now responsible for a man fully in his forties who continuously gets chewed out by his boss is that at a certain point all that internalization of Rules and Proper Behavior you did as a child because you were terrified of being so unworthy you’d stop being loved is going to kick in, and you—subconsciously—are going to start believing that it is your responsibility to train the middle aged man in your care into being an Upright Young Man. Which like, as things go? Is a pretty standard Obi-Wan interpretation.

The FLIP SIDE of that though—the Qui-Gon side, the even weirder and messier side—is that Qui-Gon is parentifying Obi-Wan out of a very real and very deep fear that he cannot and should not act as a responsible guardian as a child (which, well, he’s not wrong. but he’s right for all the wrong reasons). Subconsciously, he’s trying to set them on more equal ground, trying to keep his influence on Obi-Wan to a minimum so he doesn’t have to acknowledge the responsibility of shaping Obi-Wan both through the ways he’s absent and the ways he’s present. And of course it’s not going to work! Of course it’s not! Even when he’s an adult, Obi-Wan will always be too aware of the rules that constrain his actions as a padawan to put himself on the same level as Qui-Gon. As a child, all he’s going to do is feel… abandoned on some level. The parentification might confirm that he’s needed on some level, but it can’t replace what for him is a very keen awareness that, on some level, Qui-Gon doesn’t want to be his master. Kids that get forced to be an adult to early, even the ones who think they like it, are always going to be fundamentally, subconsciously aware that they’ve been denied a childhood that other people weren’t. For Obi-Wan, I think that subconscious awareness manifests as a desire to affirm himself as an adult—to convince himself that he wants the responsibility, that it’s right for him to have the responsibility.

And he does that by clicker training Qui-Gon.

There’s a very fun feature of relationships mired in guilt (especially the ones where the guilt is born from a very deep love and a fear of failing that love) where, over time, certain patterns develop in which each person subconsciously takes advantage of the other’s guilt. When Qui-Gon bulldozes through an interaction, overstepping their jurisdiction by half and disobeying several direct mandates from the council, Obi-Wan finds himself… conveniently left behind for Qui-Gon to find later, when he returns wracked with guilt over having forgotten his apprentice but unable to admit to it because admitting to it would mean admitting to his fears, and admitting to his fears would mean admitting to the truth of his unfitness as a master, and admitting to that would mean he loses one of the very few remaining deep, meaningful relationships he has left. When Obi-Wan follows the letter of the law, refusing to break a single rule—even the ones designed to be broken—Qui-Gon goes ahead on his own, and just so happens to find himself injured and cornered by attackers he could have easily fought off with Obi-Wan’s help, left bleeding and tired for a guilt-wracked Obi-Wan to find, knowing that he never should have abandoned his master, knowing that he’s an awful apprentice, that he’ll never be up to Qui-Gon’s standards, that he’ll never confess that, because confessing it might finally make Qui-Gon realize it, and if that happens then he gets replaced and one of the deepest, most meaningful relationships in his life slips through his fingers.

It’s not healthy for either of them—it’s actually entirely the opposite—but it’s effective. And by the end of Obi-Wan’s apprenticeship, Qui-Gon is at least 30% less likely to go off on his own and start doing things he really shouldn’t, and 40% more likely to never, ever leave his padawan behind.

And then Anakin shows up, and suddenly everything they’d so carefully repressed and talked around and ignored becomes a big glaring issue in the face of Star Wars’ own #1 complicating factor

#tldr; they're SUCH a mess and it's really bad for them but the vast majority of alternatives are ten times worse #qui gon and obi wan #star wars #star wars meta #ish #this is a very.... creative reading #it's just my favorite right now bc. they're little freaks in it and i enjoy that #asks #phoenixyfriend

[itstimeforstarwars]

I'm gonna be honest, avreally big part of me is still convinced that Kix is going to join the cast of Hundred Hours because he keeps getting mentioned, and on the off chance he DOESN'T, I'm hoping we get an "inspired by" short that explores it anyway

Given that only Rex and Cody are brought up in the recent Arla short, I know it's unlikely, but damn do I want to imagine this is The Plan

You know, funny you should mention that...

I have very nebulous plans regarding Kix, they’re just...further ahead :)

#asks #phoenixyfriend #the doc pictured is for the inspired series tho #i don't want to spoil anything but aside from mentioning kix there's also a reason I keep bringing up bacta and bacta shortages :)

[jebiknights]

Hello yes bumping off that last post, do you have thoughts on Din/Bo-Katan happening as a Surprisingly Stable Thing off in the background of your Boba/Fennec/Luke thing

I'm ngl I'm still not caught up on the most recent season of mando so I don't have too many feelings on this but I am very intrigued. Esp by the possibility of somehow Din and Bo having a healthier and more stable relationship than whatever the hell Boba/Fennec/Luke have going on? Absolutely hilarious. Din is giving the judgmental helmet stare at them at all times of day. Bo is wondering if she can excommunicate the Fetts a second time. She's not even sure the first time was official since it was because of one of her sister's shitty ministers but she's willing to try it again. They are a political power couple, meanwhile Boba/Luke/Fennec has already almost caused an international incident (not within the government, Han just threw the biggest bitch fit known to man when he found out Luke was shacking up with Boba Fett of all people and then got more mad when Luke pointed out that Han still had that weird on and off thing with Lando before and after his initial betrayal of them, so can he really get mad at Luke for this?)

Wow I let that get away from me - I do not have nuanced thoughts about this but I am here for it. I love a good unlikely B-Couple to the more chaotic A-Couple

#phoenixyfriend #idk what to tag this as lmaoooo #bobalunec #maybe???? #asks

[catholic-character-tournament]

Belatedly realizing I should have suggested the Irish mobsters in Leverage, if only for the holy ground discussion

mobsters would be a fun discussion in the "most likely to get into heaven" tournament haha

#asks #leverage #phoenixyfriend

[norcumii]

I finished rereading "A Star To Steer By" (for... the third time...), and I thought I might ask if you and dogmatix ever decided on Ventress's situation? (The only reference I could find to her was the comparison to Selmak, so I'm reasonably certain I'm not asking about something already addressed.)

My brain is running away with my own possible interpretations, but I figured I'd ask before doing a headcanon for someone else's fic 😅

(EEEE, thank you!! <333)

We've tossed ideas around, it's just....kinda really fluid right now since we haven't actively pinned it down and finding notes can be hard. ^_^;;;

If I recall correctly, she's a Sith symbiote, and very probably dead by Obi-Wan unless it's REALLY hilarious that she's not but that's WILDLY unlikely.

We've some ideas for a related supplemental, but that's on the back burner.

And hey, headcanons and AUs are fun! XD

#conversation #phoenixyfriend #star to steer by #star wars #spoilers #asajj ventress

[professorsparklepants]

Okay but imagine BLACKPINK wearing those black-and-pink barbie dresses

i am and i'm loving it

#ask #phoenixyfriend

[yukipri]

SOKA SOKA SOKA TSUM GOT MY SOKA TSUM SHE IS GLORIOUS

(this is from the Tsum Tsum app game, currently in its Star Wars event month at long last!)

She is!!! I've so far opened 100 boxes (I had enough coins/tickets saved at the start for 340), and so far I've gotten 1 Ahsoka, 3 Luke & Artoos, and 4 Obi-Wans. Not fantastic odds, but could be worse.

Just a heads up though, that you may not want to use up all of your coins just yet! Very soon (probably on May 4th), there'll be a Star Wars Select Box, which is a special box that ONLY contains Star Wars tsums, so every tsum you pull is guaranteed to be Star Wars. It doesn't include any of the new 3, but it WILL contain the following:

Jedi Luke

Samurai General Darth Vader

Ashigaru Stormtrooper

Emperor Palpatine

Jedi Training Rey

Ben Kenobi

Kylo Ren

Yoda

Han Solo

Chewbacca

R2-D2

BB-8

If you don't have him yet, YOU WANT JEDI LUKE (that's Luke with the brown hood), trust me. He is probably the single "strongest" Tsum in the entire game, and if you max out his skill, you can easily earn 10K+ coins per play (which is what I do lol).

He and all of these other tsums only ever return in these special Star Wars boxes, and your odds of pulling him in a select box are infinitely better than general Premium Tsums, so this is a great opportunity! I'd definitely recommend saving enough coins to try to get at least one copy of him. You can always slowly earn skill tickets to max him out later, but you can't do that if you don't have him at all ;_;

(I'm a little sad that the select box is different from what Japan got last year, because I was really hoping to get Anakin this year ;_; Ah well, one day, and Jedi Luke is an objectively better tsum...I just already have him maxed....)

Anyway, yup, this is the massive Coins Spending Month for Star Wars fans on this silly app game ^ ^;

(and if anyone new feels like adding me, my line ID is YukiPri!)

❀ ❀ Send YukiPri an Ask! ❀ ❀

#YukiPri replies #phoenixyfriend #Tsum Tsum #Star Wars

[rexsokaficquotes]

“Medical snitched to Rebellion leadership,” she grouses. “I’m going to be put on mandatory leave for a karking week for this.”

“You’re hurt?”

“No,” she mutters. “But I’ve got a heat coming up.”

— phoenixyfriend, from A Heated Conversation

#fic: rated m #rebellion era #mating cycles/in heat #rexsoka #rexsoka fic quotes #captain rex #ahsoka tano #star wars rebels #star wars #phoenixyfriend

[loosingmoreletters]

Made up fic title: copy it down like the prayers of old

I'll be honest, first thought that came to mind was oh, this would incredibly slap for an introspective fic on Nai/Knives from Trigun.

Or maybe something where the twins go in even more diametric opposite directions and while Knives builds up his little cult of doom, Vash does the same. Vash tries to be so good and so so much good, maybe lean even more into this idea of servitude as an act of grace and salvation. Letting himself be used as his sisters so he can make up for the damage his brother does, so he can save humanity.

Idk. I just think Vash could've fucked himself up even more emotionally and it's a miracle he didn't.

send me a made-up fic title (and a fandom) and i’ll tell you what i would write to go with it!

#ask #trigun #phoenixyfriend

[brawltogethernow]

How many girlfriends does Peter Parker have and in what way does a higher number make him more obnoxiously pathetic

It's pathetic because he's had the distinct goal of "marry a single person and devote myself utterly" since he was at least 15 and obnoxious because he would actually die before he self-identified as a slut.

#this math is fake please don't seek revenge if you lived through the carlie cooper era. #phoenixyfriend #asks answered #marvel #spidey

[sayla-aris]

Haven’t been here for a bit and I just want to put a brain worm into existence OUT of my brain.

So like... I typed in a website wrong because my typing skills suck especially when I’m tired. And what came up? My ex’s tumblr. And I just remembered these conversations we would have about if we lived together and the size of the apartment and shit. And now. NOW. I am living in a 2b/1ba with my two cats that has a HUGE living room you could use as a dance studio space (trying to keep myself from buying a pole to add to the aerial equipment and it is a losing battle) plus equal sized bedrooms with good sized closets and. It’s what we talked about wanting. Except here I am, affording it on my own, doing my thing, living my life (providing for my cats), etc. and she’s apparently struggling to find a job and move out of her parents’ home.

Like, I feel like I should feel vindicated except I don’t. I actually feel pity. Yeah, we had a terrible breakup and she lost a bunch of friends at the exact same time due to her behavior and actions but it’s been YEARS and honestly? I hope she finds a job and can move out. It’s probably not going to be the “live alone” sitch she’s apparently dreaming of, but it would be nice to know she’s at least thriving because it looks like she is trying to fix all the things that she was doing way back then.

Anyway, hope she gets a job soon. Hope she can afford to move out soon.

Still not going to unblock her but I am going to tag her even though I’m probably also still blocked. :P

#phoenixyfriend #anyway if you see this my current company is hiring a shit ton of people so if you don't mind hr

[itstimeforstarwars]

Wip meme...

Kix

(If that's not within the rules, uh, blaster)

:)

Actually I've got a scene that contains both.

~

Master Elmga stilled. Kix. 

The name was familiar.

"I don’t suppose you’re from Torrent, are you?" she asked.

Kix froze for only a second.

And then he pulled a blaster.

#asks #ask game #my writing #phoenixyfriend #clone trooper kix #i was gonna put more of this scene in this ask #but there's some spoilers just above these lines that I'd hate to reveal too early... :) #fun fact this is actually the last line of the wip currently I've been having trouble writing out the rest of the scene #thanks for the ask!

[jebiknights]

What are your top five "they either would or should put 'It's Complicated' as their relationship status" ships for Star Wars?

iofjgdfijs OH GOD I feel like a lot of my ships would do that but hmm my top??

(in no specific order tho)

Quinlan/Obi-Wan: this one may seem weird as an "it's complicated" but I think that Quinlan and Obi-Wan probably live in this weird in between world of "we are madly in love with each other" and "we are platonic soulmates/heterosexual life partners" (like the trope not that either of them are straight lol). They're exclusive and they're open. They keep falling in love with pretty girls who could murder them. They have semi-successfully co-parented two children together into knighthood.

Rex/Ventress: oh man I have been thinking about this ship in the back of my mind since you first starting sharing those "romance protag" videos dfijssiths. they are mortal enemies they are allies of circumstance they are both being held back by their lives even when they are feeling like they are doing the right thing they are also probably making out in the middle of a hostage situation when ventress is supposed to be interrogating rex and they are both angry about it afterwards.

Mandocule: (mainly thinking of Boba/Din/Fennec/Luke/sometimes Cobb but others too) I think polycules always make things a little complicated (I say as a polyam person) but especially when you have like... several bounty hunters, two of which turned community leaders, a former son of a "smuggler"/rebel turned Jedi, and a former slave turned sheriff, and it just gets... so chaotic. Especially when you consider the amount of trauma, daddy issues, mommy issues, and more this group has collectively, and they are all trying to co-parent a baby jedi who is older than the majority of them. All of them are probably wanted criminals on at least one planet.

Cody/Anakin: while I do think that they could have an actual "we talked it out" relationship, I think what is almost more likely for them specifically is that... lmao they wouldn't. They are both kinda sleeping with a superior/subordinate. They are butting heads all the time but kind of obsessed with each other. They would kill for each other but also might team up to kill Obi-Wan because he is driving them nuts. They both have extreme little brother energy and have both been usurped by a babier sibling that they are suddenly in charge of (Rex and Ahsoka). They both are a lot deeper than they give the other credit for, and they probably only really figure this out after they've already started fucking.

Padme/Sabe: I wasn't going to put this one on the list originally but the more I thought about it the more I realized it is up there even though I don't talk about it often. It's got so much good potential for juicy undefined tropes. Sabe is literally Padme's bodyguard/knight to her Queen, even moreso than Anakin is. She is hopelessly devoted to her and would do anything for her, and Padme is the same back but is also the one actually in a position of power and is extremely important to society. They're in love and have probably been in love since they were kids, even if Padme marries Anakin. And Duty would hold them back in a way it wouldn't for a lot of other ships in star wars. Their love is always there in the background!

this took me way too long to do but it was so much fun thank u nixy

#the problem is so many of my fave its complicated ships are either polycules or situationally complicated #so tried to reflect ones i almost always see as complicated lol #asks #phoenixyfriend #so if this ends up in the tags but i wanna tag for organizational purposes later on #also no there arent any clone ships on here bc tbh the way i view clone dating culture involves a lot of unspoken rules #and just works a bit different than natborn dating culture since they were raised to die yaknow #much more cest la vie and live for the moment #codykin #codakin #rextress #quinobi #obiquin #mandocule #padme/sabe #sabe/padme

[catholic-character-tournament]

[lighthearted, in good faith/good fun, I have much respect for the girl who kneeled on shards to beg for forgiveness from God]

NGL those (several sets of) tags on the Harrow/Matt poll saying "she grew up on a nun planet and all her friends and acquaintances are nuns" makes me feel like Being a Nun is a bit less valid, in relation to this poll. Matt has been aware of Ways Out since he was young, because NYC, and he stays Catholic anyway.

Like it doesn't make her less of a nun or less Catholic but within the context of this specific poll I think Matt's choice to stay in the Irish Catholic Church is like [gestures vaguely] kind of important?

But also, as one friend put it:

Listen. I think the real metric for who is more Catholic is that if you asked Harrowhark who the virgin mary is she'd say "why are you talking to me about this woman's sex life?" so she is NOT Catholic-

Anyway, some comments from a few others:

I will point out harrow knew people who weren't nuns because she sure did know gideon, Who thought their whole religion was dumb as hell

I'd say harrow probably has equal parts orthodox and catholic wossnames but I don't know Jack shit. Daredevil has more claim to the pure Catholicism of it all

tlt is catholic THEMED its catholic IMAGERY its not ACTUALLY CATHOLIC

In the spirit of good faith criticism, lay people (non nuns, priest, monks, etc.) can be as/more devoted than people in religious life (nuns, priest, monk, etc.) I personally do not think any character is inherently more devoted/deserving of a win only because they're in religious life.

Anyways, vote no to Harrow~

#the locked tomb #tlt #harrowhark nonasigmus #harrowhawk #cct propaganda #asks #phoenixyfriend #matt murdock #daredevil

[norcumii]

Hi yes hello I am Thinking about Ventress in the Stargate fic again, and I wanted to ask: would a former human host who has lost their Jedi be able to teach a youngling Jedi that they now host? Like, if Ky Narec was a human host, and his Jedi somehow died in his crash onto Rattatak, would he have enough knowledge of how Jedi learn FROM that to teach some to Ventress, even though he's not a Jedi-by-species?

Or would it be more likely to be the reverse, where Ventress is a Force-Sensitive Dathomiri Zabrak, who finds Jedi!Ky after his host dies, and they figure out her powers through the overlap they have with their powers? Though, in that case, it would be difficult to kill Ky the way canon did, since he's hosted.

Maybe both are Jedi-by-species, and Ventress's host is a Dathomiri Zabrak girl who loses her shit in tandem with Ventress herself...

I know this is the second time I've brought up Ventress and her situation in this series but I am SO INCREDIBLY CURIOUS in the many ways her story can be reconfigured for this new world

(many apologies for the delay; brick space has been Full Of Things lately -_-;;)

Huuuuh. I think a former human host would be able to easily communicate what they know and learned from their former Jedi to the new one, but they wouldn't be able to teach things they didn't learn/"remember"/ask about -

however, according to Stargate canon (so please add a usual amount of salt), if a goa'uld dies while hosted that leaves patchy erratic memories with the host. So it's possible that said host might have some random details, but nothing truly comprehensive.

*chinhands* The rest is just delightful, though sadly I do not have brains enough for more than gleeful squeaking and applause!

#conversation #phoenixyfriend #star to steer by #people being awesome